In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.